[Unedited] Janna Levin with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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Sociology, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Arts, Culture, On Being, Society, Society & Culture, Science, Social Sciences

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2014

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Janna Levin is an astrophysicist and writer. She has contributed to an understanding of black holes, the cosmology of extra dimensions, and gravitational waves in the shape of spacetime. She is the author of “A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines,” which won the PEN/Bingham prize. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Janna Levin — Mathematics, Purpose, and Truth.” Find more at onbeing.org.

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0:00.0	This is On Being's Unheard Cut. I'm Christa Tippett. You're listening to my unedited conversation
0:05.2	with theoretical physicist and novelist, Jan 11. I spoke with her on November 15th, 2007,
0:11.8	from the studios of APM in St. Paul, Minnesota. She was in a private recording studio in New York City.
0:18.0	This interview is included in our show, Mathematics, Purpose and Truth. Download the MP3 of the
0:23.9	Produce Show at onbeing.org.
0:27.2	Sam, they're saying that...
0:31.2	Yeah, I think we probably need to turn my head from volume down a little bit.
0:35.0	Okay. Jan, why don't you tell me...
0:38.4	I'm hearing an echo too.
0:42.6	All right.
0:44.8	Are we echoing off of each other?
0:46.3	Well, are you still echoing? I just turn my head from volume down, and that maybe that
0:51.7	may do the trick for me as well. Okay, let me see my echoing. No, I think my echo's gone.
0:56.2	Okay. I'm sounding better too. Okay. Tell me something mundane, like what you had for lunch,
1:06.1	so that we can get lunch. Oh, sad. I missed lunch. I had a nauseating cab ride
1:11.9	from uptown to downtown instead, in lieu of lunch. I'm sorry. That's all right.
1:19.0	I recovered. Okay. Paul gave me a nice cup of tea, so I'm all better.
1:23.5	Okay. Do you have any questions of me before we start?
1:27.6	Well, I just, I guess, just roughly what you think will cover. I mean, nothing in detail,
1:32.1	I don't want to pre-empt anything, but just roughly think we'll talk mostly about the book,
1:36.8	or all kinds of topics and science, and just actually I forgot to ask that for you.
1:41.0	I want to jump off the book, and I love the book. I think it's fantastic.
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